Tuesday. 29th.

Wrote a letter to my father as usual. No news from George yet. Took a little medicine
this morning. I do not know whether I need it or not but I am a little hypochondriac
and do it to raise my spirits. Finished the subject of real actions. Afternoon, at
my room. Copied some Executive Record. Commenced Novanglus and Massachuttisensis1 and in the evening Voltaire’s Louis 14th. On the whole better content with myself
than usual.

1. Two copies of Novanglus, and Massachusettensis; or, Political Essays, Published in the Years 1774
and 1775, on the Principal Points of Controversy, { 234 } between Great Britain and Her Colonies, Boston, 1819, are in the Stone Library. The work contained a preface by JA, the author
of the “Novanglus” papers, written in reply to Daniel Leonard’s “Massachusettensis” papers, 1774–1775.
See JA, Diary and Autobiography, 2:161. CFA was reading the work at the suggestion of his father, who thought it would help
counter the Tory bias of Thomas Hutchinson’s History (JQA to CFA, 7 April 1828, Adams Papers).